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Windows basically wouldn't function on the original 4GB memory, especially Win 11.. ..so resource intensive
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Matthew 9mo ago

Agreed. Windows 11 will technically work with only 4GB of memory, but you can only have one or two programs open at a time and large web apps will be close to unusable. So quadrupling the memory was a good thing to do. I wouldn't have upgraded to Windows 11 if the customer hadn't agreed to the memory upgrade.

Speaking of resource intensive... i3wm is the opposite of that. I am enjoying it on my ThinkPad X270. I have to familiarize myself with it more. Sound is broken. I think the script didn't play well with Devuan. I should be able to fix it myself when I dedicate some time to it.

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e33io 9mo ago

you could try the following commands..

sudo apt purge pipewire*

sudo apt autoremove

sudo apt install pulseaudio

..then reboot

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Matthew 9mo ago

Thank you. Those apt commands fixed the sound. I'll try the sed commands later.

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e33io 9mo ago

these commands could be helpful too..

sed -i 's/systemctl/loginctl/g' $HOME/.config/i3/laptop.conf

sed -i 's/systemctl/loginctl/g' $HOME/.local/bin/rofi-power.sh

sed -i 's/systemctl/loginctl/g' $HOME/.local/bin/stay-awake.sh

sed -i 's/systemctl/loginctl/g' $HOME/.bashrc

..run as user (not as root), then reboot

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e33io 9mo ago

if you need to set the default mute and a default volume level..

..add these two lines to the `$HOME/.config/i3/config` file..

exec --no-startup-id sleep 1 && pactl set-sink-mute @DEFAULT_SINK@ false && $refresh_i3status

exec --no-startup-id sleep 6 && pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ 15% && $refresh_i3status

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e33io 9mo ago

i went ahead and made these changes into a script.. ..you won't need this script now, but it might be helpful for future installs..

https://github.com/e33io/scripts/blob/main/mod-debian-to-devuan.sh